Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. C3 Technology Advisors is a technology advisory firm that helps organizations make smarter technology buying decisions. They are seeking a Principal AI Engineer to validate their internal AI strategy, identify high-value use cases, and drive adoption of AI solutions across various teams.
Responsibilities
- Validate our internal AI strategy and suggest tweaks
- Identify the high-value use cases within C3 with Sales, Engineering, Ops, Marketing and Finance
- Prioritize the use cases, put an understandable roadmap in place, assist in budgeting
- Choose and roll out the right tools. Evaluate platforms, run pilots, make build-versus-buy recommendations to leadership
- Own architecture and technical standards
- Build where needed. Prototype integrations and lightweight tools yourself when that is the fastest path to value
- Drive adoption within C3. Train teams, build playbooks and prompt libraries, and meet skeptics where they are
- Measure what matters, then report progress to leadership
- Keep it safe. Practical policies for privacy, security, and acceptable use, so the company moves fast without creating risk
- Own the relationships with external AI partner(s). It’ll be impossible to do the entirety of the AI job within the walls of C3. Dole out to partners what doesn’t make sense for C3 itself to take on
Skills
- 7 - 10+ years in AI, data, product, or a technical role
- 2+ years with real experience deploying AI in a working environment
- Proficiency with the latest tools, Microsoft-centric programs, programming languages, , etc
- A strong grasp of modern AI, including LLMs, assistants, automation, and retrieval, plus judgment about where each does and does not help
- A track record of driving adoption
- Excellent communication. You can win over a skeptical salesperson and a cautious VP of Ops in the same afternoon
- The ability to operate at both altitudes: shape a roadmap in the morning, build a prototype in the afternoon
- Awareness of the practical risks around privacy, security, and accuracy, and how to manage them without slowing everyone down
- Although the job is remote, travelling to West Michigan several times a year is needed
- 4 year degree is preferred, but is not a requirement
- Experience introducing AI at a small or growing company
- Experience in telecommunications or tech consulting
- Hubspot experience
Benefits
- Although the job is remote, travelling to West Michigan several times a year is needed.
- Within 1 hour of Grand Rapids is preferred, within the Midwest is acceptable
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